On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:03:56 -0700, Brent Dax wrote:
>I'm going on vacation soon, and I'd like to get a good book on writing
>compilers--hopefully one that will help me when we actually start coding
>Perl 6. Any suggestions? I have no formal education on compilers, and
>I only know C, C++ and Perl (duh).
Unless you get a kick out of mathematical proofs, you probably won't get
too much out of the dragon book. It ain't very practical. I would look
out for a book that gives a *practical* introduction to compiler design,
i.e. one that builds a working compiler on the side.
Although I've really only browsed in them, I think I'd rather look into
"Crafting a Compiler" by C. Fisher and R. Leblanc, or "A retargetable C
compiler", by D. Hanson and C. Fraser, which forms the basis for lcc
(one shoot-off is lcc-win32, an excellent, freely available C compiler
with IDE, for Win32).
Both books get good reviews.
--
Bart.
